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UK: Heat detectors for immigrants

01 May 1992

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In the wake of the arrest in March of 15 illegal immigrants who hid in a lorry to come into Britain, the Home Office revealed a pilot scheme using heat detectors to spot illegal immigrants smuggled in to the country in trucks and vans. It said that the scheme, tried in Dover for a week in 1991, had yielded ten arrests.

The fifteen men were arrested after getting out of a lorry at an M4 service station. They were Sikhs from the Punjab, where the Indian security forces have been accused by Amnesty International of widespread human rights abuses, including extra-judicial killings torture and detention without trial of suspected members of the Khalistan liberation movement. Several of the men were thought to be asylum-seekers.

Guardian 24.3.92.

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